Did you ever try to imagine what it would feel like to sit
with a witch doctor in the rain forest of a warm continent and listen to him or
her deliver a lecture on modern brain surgery? Well, it might be impossible to
imagine something as far fetched as that but there is something you can do to
come close to experiencing the feel of it. What you can do is read Tzipi
Livni's article in which she delivers to the world a lecture on democracy.
Livni is Israel 's
minister of justice and chief Israeli negotiator in the talks with the
Palestinians. Her article comes under the title: “Three Boys, One Terrorist
Group and a Message for Democracies” and also comes under the subtitle: “A
kidnapping in Israel
is a wake-up call about the perils of giving antidemocratic groups access to
elections.” It was published in the Wall Street Journal on June 26, 2014.
The article begins with the story of three Israeli boys who
went to a place where they were not supposed to go, and disappeared without
leaving a trace. No one knows what happened to them given that the terrain
where they went is considered unsafe. But this is not what Livni has assumed
because she came right out and accused a Palestinian group called Hamas of
kidnapping the boys even though no one made a claim to this effect.
What is astonishing about this story is that Livni is the
minister of justice of an entity that wants the world to believe it is
civilized. The woman makes an accusation of that kind having not one iota of
proof to back her claim, and then writes an article addressed to the world in
which she links her unsubstantiated accusation with the larger concept of
democratic governance which, of course, encompasses the rule of law.
What is important to remember is that there is an
outstanding warrant for the arrest of Livni if she steps on British soil,
having been accused of war crimes for which ample prima facie evidence was
provided. Thus, for her to lecture the world on democracy and the rule of law
is like a witch doctor that never left the jungle, lecturing the world on
modern brain surgery.
From the moment that you start reading the article, you get
the feeling that if the witch doctor has no clue what modern brain surgery
entails, she has the power of the sorcerer, and the ability to whisk you to a
nearby shooting range where you feel like you've been ambushed. Each word, each
sentence and each paragraph comes at you like a bullet which, upon examination,
turns out to be a reality that applies to the Israelis.
But here they are – verbal bullets expressed in such a way
as to sound like it is Hamas and not the Jews who want an endless religious
war. That it is Hamas and not the Jews who rain bombs on the innocent. That it
is Hamas and not the Jews who commit gruesome acts of terror from the air, the
sea and the land … and so on, and so on, and so on.
And here she is the direct descendent of the original
terrorist group that came to the land of peace, quiet, serenity and beauty with
a machine gun in one hand and a grenade in the other to establish a nation of
collective communes, now telling the world that some people do not deserve
having the right the vote because they are not peaceful enough, and because
they intend to misuse the democracy that is so loved in Israel, everybody
worships it. Here is how Livni expressed that piece of shameless Jewish crap:
“In 2006 Hamas was allowed to participate in elections and
surprised many by its victory in Gaza ,
Then as now,
the international community hoped that participation would
have a moderating effect. Then, as now, I argued that democracy was not just
about voting … By now we all should be wiser. The experience with Hamas … has
demonstrated that [some] groups do not generally participate in elections to
moderate their agenda. They participate to launder that agenda.”